Georgia and the American Experience (My State History) – Student Edition

Reading age for native speakers: Middle School students
CONTENTS

UNIT 1 Our Special State
Chapter 1 Where in the World is Georgia?
- Section 1 What is Geography?
- Section 2 Geographic Regions of Georgia
- Section 3 Georgia's Climate
Chapter 2 This Place We Call Home
- Section 1 Georgia's Flora and Fauna
- Section 2 Georgia's Natural Resources
- Section 3 Georgia's Waterways

UNIT 2 From Exploration Through Independence
Chapter 3 The Land and It's Early People, 10,000 B.C. - 1732 A.D.
- Section 1 How Did We Learn About the Earliest People?
- Section 2 Indian Nations in Georgia
Chapter 4 Settlement of the Thirteenth Colony, 1477 - 1752
- Section 1 An Age of Exploration
- Section 2 English Settlement of the New World
- Section 3 The Colonization of Georgia
- Section 4 Building a New Home
Chapter 5 From Royalty to Independence, 1752 - 1783
- Section 1 The Colonial Period
- Section 2 Georgia Becomes a Royal Colony
- Section 3 The Call for Independence
- Section 4 The Revolutionary War Period

UNIT 3 Testing a Nation
Chapter 6 An Age of Expansion, 1783 - 1838
- Section 1 Creating a New Government
- Section 2 Land Fever in Georgia
- Section 3 Economic Growth in Georgia
- Section 4 Georgia at the Dawn of a New Century
- Section 5 The War of 1812
- Section 6 Native Americans in Georgia
Chapter 7 The Antebellum Era, 1838 -1860
- Section 1 Manifest Destiny
- Section 2 Deepening Divisions
- Section 3 Slavery as a Way of Life
- Section 4 Antebellum Georgia
- Section 5 The Election of 1860
Chapter 8 A Nation in Conflict, 1860 - 1865
- Section 1 The Road to War
- Section 2 The War on the Battlefield
- Section 3 Life for the Civil War Soldier
- Section 4 Life During the Civil War

UNIT 4 A New Spirit
Chapter 9 Reconstruction and the New South, 1866 -1899
- Section 1 Lincoln and Construction
- Section 2 Reconstruction in Georgia
- Section 3 Georgia's Redemption Years
- Section 4 The New South
Chapter 10 The Progressive Era, 1889 - 1919
- Section 1 The Progressive Movement
- Section 2 Southern Politics in Action
- Section 3 The Continuing Fight for Civil Rights
- Section 4 Business in Georgia
- Section 5 World War I
Chapter 11 Flappers, Depression, and Global War, 1920 - 1945
- Section 1 The Roaring Twenties
- Section 2 The Great Depression
- Section 3 The New Deal
- Section 4 World War II

UNIT 5 Georgia in the Modern World
Chapter 12 Baby Boomers, Rebellion, and Wars, 1946 - 1979
- Section 1 The Postwar Period
- Section 2 Georgia After World War II
- Section 3 The Civil Rights Movement
- Section 4 A Period of Protest and Changes
Chapter 13 Peace, Prosperity, and Peril, 1980- 2005
- Section 1 The 1980's
- Section 2 The 1990's
- Section 3 Terrorism at Home and Abroad
- Section 4 Georgia in a New Century

UNIT 6 Making It All Work
Chapter 14 With Liberty and Justice - The Federal Government
- Section 1 Toward a New Constitution
- Section 2 The Legislative Branch of Government
- Section 3 The Executive Branch of Government
- Section 4 The Judicial Branch of Government
Chapter 15 Government of the Empire State
- Section 1 The Executive Branch of State Government
- Section 2 The Legislative Branch of State Government
- Section 3 The Judicial Branch of State Government
- Section 4 Young People and the Law
Chapter 16 Local Government and Citizenship
- Section 1 County Government
- Section 2 City Government
- Section 3 Where Do Georgia's Citizens Live?
- Section 4 Participation in a Representative Democracy

Appendices
Atlas of Georgia
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgments